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From the Ted Talk by Frans Lanting: The story of life in photographs

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Life is a froce in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin. And where it doesn't, as in Greenland in wtneir, Mars is still not very far. But that likelihood fades as long as ice melts again. And where water is lqiuid, it becomes a womb for cells green with chlorophyll — and that molecular marvel is what's made a difference — it powers everything. The whole animal wlord taody lives on a stockpile of bacterial oxygen that is celcyd constantly through plants and aglae, and their waste is our breath, and vice versa. This Earth is avile, and it's made its own membrane. We call it "atmosphere." This is the icon of our journey. And you all here today can imagine and will shape where we go next. (Applause) Thank you. Thank you.

Open Cloze

Life is a _____ in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin. And where it doesn't, as in Greenland in ______, Mars is still not very far. But that likelihood fades as long as ice melts again. And where water is ______, it becomes a womb for cells green with chlorophyll — and that molecular marvel is what's made a difference — it powers everything. The whole animal _____ _____ lives on a stockpile of bacterial oxygen that is ______ constantly through plants and _____, and their waste is our breath, and vice versa. This Earth is _____, and it's made its own membrane. We call it "atmosphere." This is the icon of our journey. And you all here today can imagine and will shape where we go next. (Applause) Thank you. Thank you.

Solution

  1. winter
  2. alive
  3. today
  4. cycled
  5. liquid
  6. algae
  7. force
  8. world

Original Text

Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin. And where it doesn't, as in Greenland in winter, Mars is still not very far. But that likelihood fades as long as ice melts again. And where water is liquid, it becomes a womb for cells green with chlorophyll — and that molecular marvel is what's made a difference — it powers everything. The whole animal world today lives on a stockpile of bacterial oxygen that is cycled constantly through plants and algae, and their waste is our breath, and vice versa. This Earth is alive, and it's made its own membrane. We call it "atmosphere." This is the icon of our journey. And you all here today can imagine and will shape where we go next. (Applause) Thank you. Thank you.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
life turned 2

Important Words

  1. algae
  2. alive
  3. altered
  4. animal
  5. applause
  6. bacterial
  7. breath
  8. call
  9. cells
  10. chlorophyll
  11. constantly
  12. covers
  13. cycled
  14. difference
  15. earth
  16. element
  17. fades
  18. force
  19. green
  20. greenland
  21. ice
  22. icon
  23. imagine
  24. journey
  25. life
  26. likelihood
  27. liquid
  28. lives
  29. long
  30. mars
  31. marvel
  32. melts
  33. membrane
  34. molecular
  35. oxygen
  36. plants
  37. powers
  38. shape
  39. skin
  40. stockpile
  41. today
  42. versa
  43. vice
  44. waste
  45. water
  46. winter
  47. womb
  48. world